Media
During normal school terms, ETV programmes are broadcast from Monday to Friday (except some long school vacations like public holidays and weekend) on the free-to-air terrestrial television channels such: TVB Pearl and ATV World alternately so that one of the stations broadcasts ETV programmes in the morning from 08:00 until 12:00 HKT and the other broadcasts them in the afternoon from 12:00 until 16:00 HKT time slot. In each academic year the 2-free-to-air terrestrial television stations' ETV broadcasting periods swap over.
Although each programme is broadcast several times a week their broadcast times are not adapted to school class timetables. The government therefore provides necessary television and recording equipment for reception of ETV programmes for government schools and aided schools in Hong Kong. The recorded programmes can then be viewed out of the broadcast time frame as required by the school.
Some programmes are distributed in form of VCDs or interactive multimedia CD-ROMs to schools.
With the coming of the Internet age, ETV programmes and other materials can be obtained from ETV website eTVonline.
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